Jerome Corsi Facts: Roger Stone's Associate Expects Indictment By Mueller, Life Imprisonment

Jerome Corsi is an associate of former Trump adviser and Republican strategist Roger Stone. Speaking via a YouTube broadcast on Monday, Corsi said he expects to be indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for giving false information regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"And now I fully anticipate that the next few days, I will be indicted by Mueller for some form or other of giving false information to the special counsel or to one of the other grand jury or however they want to do the indictment. But I'm going to be criminally charged," Corsi said Monday.

In a different interview with ABC News, Corsi said: “I think my only crime was that I support Donald Trump. That’s my crime, and now I’m going to go to prison for the rest of my life for cooperating with them.”

Here are a few facts about Corsi:

Corsi actively supported the “Birther Conspiracy” against former President Barack Obama which claimed that he was born in Kenya and hence was not a U.S. citizen. He wrote a book called “Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President” which was published in May 2011. It alleged that Obama had spent “millions of dollars in legal fees” to avoid releasing a long-form birth certificate.

In the same year as his book release, Corsi said the-then business mogul Donald Trump had reached out to him saying he did not believe that Obama’s birth certificate which the White House had released was real and instead was a computer-generated fabrication. Trump denied saying any such thing to Corsi later on, Heavy reported.

Corsi worked with far-right conspiracy theorist and Washington bureau chief for Infowars, Alex Jones, and together they promoted the QAnon theory, according to which “Q” was a high-level government insider who was dropping hints regarding Trump’s plan to expose a ring of pedophiles operating within the Democratic Party. While Jones changed his tone in May 2018, saying QAnon could no longer be trusted, Corsi continued to promote the idea.

He also wrote an op-ed for USA Today in February titled “Arm qualified, willing teachers and staff” which defended the idea of arming school teachers with guns as a means to make educational institutions safer.

His most recent book – “Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump” – claims that a “shadow government” was working hand in hand with left-wing extremists and the mainstream media to bring Trump’s presidency to an early end.

Corsi met with Mueller’s team for the first time on Sept. 7 after receiving a subpoena for the same on Aug. 28. Mueller’s team became interested in Corsi after Stone referenced him while testifying before the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 regarding his knowledge about Wikileaks getting its hands on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails.

Although it is not immediately clear as to what Corsi fears he might be charged with, according to CNN, he could be indicted on anything ranging from perjury to obstruction of justice.

Stone released the following statement on his associate’s possible indictment: